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For Barks & Bags

Posted in Animals, applique, fundraiser, Quilting, Serendipity, Small Town Life, tagged , on April 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A few weeks ago I made this little banner that I donated to our local Humane Society for their Barks & Bags Fundraiser event.  I hope it auctioned off and raised some $$$ to help those babies at the shelter.

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Tish Completed Her First Quilt

Posted in Quilting, tagged on April 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Tish just completed her first quilt…and isn’t it terrific???!!!! Great work Tish! If you have been wanting to learn to quilt watch for upcoming quilt classes at The Studio. Check out what we have on our calendar now by clicking here.

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Two More Begin with a Star

Posted in Quilting, Sewing, tagged , , on March 30, 2024| 4 Comments »

Two more of our beginning quilting students completed their “Beginning with a Star” quilt recently. Arent’t they amazing???!!!! Great work Melissa and Laura. Y’all did beautiful work. And it was fun seeing you embrace a new art. Can’t wait to do another quilt project with you!

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1961 Featherweight Hard at Work

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , on March 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »

I started this quilt while at the quilt retreat a few weekends ago. I took my 1961 tan Featherweight to the retreat to piece several quilts that I was working on there. This little machine is a jewel! It has the most perfect stitch so it is gem for piecing. This quilt, the Baltimore Square, involves sixteen fabrics and many 2 inch strips that are then cut apart and sewed back together again. You know that is the craziness of quilters….taking perfectly good fabric, cutting it apart and then sewing it back together, over and over. LOL! So since getting home from the retreat I brought out the little machine that I named Barbara Ann after my mom. (Featherweights are often named and all of mine are. Read more about that here. ) And she has been working away the last two days to sew these pieces together. When this quilt is completed there will be almost 2900 2 inch pieces all together to make a beautiful quilt. I’ll share it when it’s done.

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Swiming Upstream Quilts at QuiltCon

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , , on March 6, 2024| Leave a Comment »

One of the amazing groups of quilts that we saw at QuiltCon in Raleigh was these called “Swimming Upstream”. They were fascinating. Such a simple subject but who would have thought to make it into quilts.

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Using up Scraps

Posted in Quilting, tagged , , , on February 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Finally got Lincoln off of the String Quilt blocks long enough to complete this throw. I’ve been trying to use up some scraps. It seems like they multiply when I put them in the bin to wait for a project. I’m going to try to eliminate the huge scrap supply this year. Right!!!

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2023 Temperature Quilt Almost Finished

Posted in daily painter, Quilting, Serendipity, Sewing, tagged , , on January 16, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Yesterday I finally got to spend some time sewing. I have had a terrible cold since the first of the year and haven’t had energy to do anything. You know I am really sick if I haven’t been at my machine! But yesterday was the perfect sew day…snow on the ground, warm inside and Lincoln at my feet. So I got out my Temperature Quilt and finished up the December blocks and put it all together. When Allen stopped by I got him to hold it up for me to get a photo of it. It’s really large! Now it will go off to the long-arm quilter. I can’t wait to get it back. I love a scrappy quilt and while this one is planned with colors it still appears scrappy. It had a total of 795 patches…two for each day…representing the high and low temperature for the day and a block with 5 patches that divides the months. You can see the color chart on the right that I used. I use the National Weather Service website for data on the high and low temperatures for our town. You can find it here. This was an easy design to make for a temperature quilt. Maybe next year I’ll try a different one. When it comes back from the long-arm quilter I’ll share it with you all.

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Coming Soon….Scrappy Mouse!

Posted in Animals, Quilting, tagged , on December 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Sometimes I think and think to come up with an idea for a class and sometimes my students ask me to teach them to make a particular design. This was a special request. I’ve been working to get the design done so that I can ge the class set up at the frist of the year. The class is already at least half filled but I have a feeling we will have plenty of folks who would like to make their own. Watch for dates to be listed soon. 

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Little Kitty Cats Baby Blanket

Posted in Quilting, Serendipity, tagged , on November 29, 2023| Leave a Comment »

This cute little baby blanket is going out today to a friend and her new granddaughter. They have cats and I just knew this little panel would be perfect for them.

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Red Poppy, Yellow Poppy

Posted in Quilting, tagged , on October 15, 2023| Leave a Comment »

Just got my Red Poppy, Yellow Poppy quilt back from my longarm quilter. She did a beautiful job on it. I really like this one. It’s a happy, bright quilt.

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